Roman Oliynyk, co-founder of Network Instruments, controls all engineering, product development, technical development and quality assurance services. He also works closely with company president Douglas Smith on all aspects of company development, management and strategic planning. Mr. Oliynyk graduated from Lviv University in Ukraine with a Master of Science degree in Semiconductor Physics and Electronics in 1983. He began his career as a research engineer at Lviv University, first in the Semiconductor Physics Department and then in the Surface Science Division of the Theoretical Physics Department. In 1988, Mr. Oliynyk worked on a private research contract with the USSR Space Program to lead research in determining the most efficient surface for the accelerating chamber of alkali metal based ionic rocket engines. In 1989, he co-founded Positron, a research and industrial electronics company, to design and manufacture advance control circuits for electric power stations, surge suppressor devices and specialized biological and medical research equipment. After immigrating to the United States in 1990, Mr. Oliynyk began work at James River Inc., a network connectivity software provider, as a PC hardware designer and software engineer. There he met Douglas Smith and together they realized the tremendous opportunity of the software based protocol analyzer market. Together, they founded Network Instruments, LLC in 1994 and created one of the first Windows-based protocol analyzers. Since 1994, the company has experienced steady and continued growth quarter after quarter producing award-winning affordable network troubleshooting solutions for customers around the world.